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We Can Do This!

14 Episodes

48 minutes | 20 hours ago
13: Does recycling even work?
Beth Porter, Climate Campaigns Director at Green America, join NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg to talk about the American arm of the global recycling movement and the confusing myriad of systems consumers must navigate to lead sustainable, eco-conscious lives.*Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*
50 minutes | 17 days ago
12: Women's sexual health shouldn't be taboo
It's 2021, can we speak frankly about women's sexual health yet?Dr. Crista Johnson-Agbakwu (MD) of Arizona University’s Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center and Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg (Ph.D.) of UH MacDonald Women's Hospital & Case Western Reserve University join NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a straight talk, non-apologetic conversation about women sexual health, societal shyness on the topic, and harmful traditions in immigrant communities.*Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*
46 minutes | 5 months ago
11: Advice to get rid of that debt monkey on your back
Michelle Singletary award-winning Washington Post columnist joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg and Lisa Hertzberg, director of the LifeSmarts program, to discuss how consumers can manage debt and finances even amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic and the predatory business practices that keep so many Americans in cycles of poverty.But first, Lisa Hertzberg quizzes David Han, a University of Georgia freshman and LifeSmarts program alumni on personal finance. *Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*
37 minutes | 7 months ago
10: Price gouging and usury and fraud, oh my!
Ben Wiseman, director of the Office of Consumer Protection at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, joins NCL’s VP of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud John Breyault to talk about the surge of consumer protection issues that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the crucial role that state attorneys general play in protecting consumers from predatory businesses and scammers.*Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*
47 minutes | 10 months ago
9: Child and forced marriage puts the "lock" in wedlock
Fraidy Reiss, activist and founder/director of Unchained At Last, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the silent scourge of child marriage in America and the continued effort to support women who wish to leave coerced and forced marriages.*Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*
53 minutes | 10 months ago
8: Born too soon; the difference a day makes
Dr. Joia Adele Crear-Perry of the National Birth Equity Collaborative and Dr. Kelle H. Moley of March of Dimes joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about premature births, maternal outcomes, and the societal stressors that disproportionately affect some pregnant women more than others.*Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this episode was recorded remotely. Audio quality may not be consistent throughout.*
53 minutes | a year ago
7: The invisible child laborers in our fields
Norma Flores López, Governance and Development/Collaboration Manager at East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the plight of workers on America’s farms. Joining them are two young women that have worked in fields as child laborers, Araceli and Jazmin.
48 minutes | a year ago
6: What’s for dinner? Whatever’s in the waste bin
Scott Nash, CEO of MOM’s Organic, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about America’s shocking food waste epidemic, our food system, and the impact that our dinner plates have on the environment.
43 minutes | a year ago
5: Sorry, fair pay and a safe workplace aren’t on the menu
Diana Ramirez, Federal Senior Policy Advocate at Restaurant Opportunities Center, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about one of America’s most pervasive sources of inequality: the death of livable wages in the food industry and others.
54 minutes | a year ago
4: Measles, it ain’t over until it’s over
Dr. Linda Fu, general pediatrician at Children’s National Health System and an associate professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg and Patricia Kelmar, previously NCL’s director of health policy, for a dialogue about vaccines in America and debunk the myths that have stoked the current anti-vaccine sentiment.
51 minutes | a year ago
3: Ending the scourge of child labor with Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi—Nobel Peace Prize Laurate and founder of multiple social activist organizations including Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, and GoodWeave International—joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition to talk about his journey from local activist to global figure in the fight to end child labor and the state of affairs in the movement.
42 minutes | a year ago
2: Two dynamos of women's rights law crashed through the glass ceiling—part 2
Marcia Greenberger, the founder and co-president of the National Women’s Law Center and Judy Lichtman, president emeritus and senior advisor at the National Partnership, join NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg to continue their look look at how far women have come and the work ahead in the women’s rights movement.
43 minutes | a year ago
1: Two dynamos of women's rights law crashed through the glass ceiling—part 1
Marcia Greenberger, the founder and co-president of the National Women’s Law Center and Judy Lichtman, president emeritus and senior advisor at the National Partnership, join NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a look at how far women have come and the work ahead in the women’s rights movement.
10 minutes | a year ago
Indomitable spirits
In this trailer of We Can Do This! you will hear from figures who have paved the way for social and economic reforms as well as those carrying on the fight for an equitable tomorrow. This very special sneak peek of the new podcast from the National Consumers League features two pioneering advocates and attorneys working for women's rights, Judith Lichtman and Marcia Greenberger; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi; and three young women who grew up working in the farm fields of America as child laborers.
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